This is an analysis of the poem Praise Of The Fair Bridges, Afterwards Lady Sandes, On Her Having A Scar In Her Forehead that begins with:

In court whoso demaundes
What dame doth most excell;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXab Xcdc baea Xfcf XXXc fgfg bXbg XdXX hXXi aXXj efXf dfgf XXfX fXfc jeie fjcXXhaga
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110100 111110 110111101 1101001 011101 011101 0111101 110101 1100011 110101 11011101 011101 1111010 111101 01010111 1000101 100111 111101 01010111 110101 111101 1111001 1100010 0101001 010111 1101111 10111101 100101 111101 010101 1110101 1101100 110111 010101 11010011 110011 110101 100101 11010111 110010 111101 110001 11110111 011001 011101 110001 110011 111101 010101 01011 110111111 011101 111111 1111110 11011100 110011 101101 110101 11011111 111101 111101 010011 01010111 010101 011101 111101 10111101 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; see, there are repeated.

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